Co 1055 (Early Hellenistic bronze coin of Demeterios Poliorketes) [permalink] [show fewer links]

Type

Inventoried Coin

Not after (date)

-283

Not before (date)

-300

Logical part of

Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins

Typological identification

Coin

Comparanda

Newell1927, p. 151, no. 171, pl. XVII.10 (“… Mint in Caria(?)”)

Comparanda

sim. AgoraXXVI 505, p. 188, pl. 24 (“Carian mint? after 300 B.C.“; J. Kroll)

Preservation comment

Wear: VF. Slightly nicked and chipped edge; extensive, minute to slight pitting. Speckling of white and pale blue bronze disease on obverse.

Published as

KenchreaiIII, p. 13, no. 34 (R. Hohlfelder)

Axis (1-12)

9

Numismatic Diameter (mm)

15.0

Numismatic Weight (g)

2.58

Obverse Description

Laureate head of Poseidon to right

Reverse Description

Ship‘s prow to right; at right, dolphin; below, uncertain monogram

Reverse Inscription

Above, ΒΑ

Belongs to Historical Period

Early Hellenistic (Historical Period)

Material

Bronze (Material)

Has visual motif (depicts)

Dolphin (Visual Motif)

Has visual motif (depicts)

Poseidon/Neptune (Visual Motif)

Obverse Photograph

Reverse Photograph